Fender for plows



(No Model.)

B. L. COLE.

FENDER FOB. FLOWS.

'No. 392,991. Patented Nov. 20, 1888.

qmitnaooan ROBERT LEE COLE, OF SMITHS GROVE, KENTUCKY.

FENDER FOR PLOWS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,991,.dated November 20, 1888.

Application filed July 30, 1888. Serial No. 281,376. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ROBERT LEE COLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Smiths Grove, in the county of Warren and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Im provements in Fenders for Blows, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in fenders for plows; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is aperspective view of a fender illustrating the invention at tached to a plow-beam. Fig. 2 is a side view of the fender held up by the removable pin that enters an opening in the depending arm of the clip that connects the fender of the plow-beam. Fig. 3 is an edge view of said clip with the bolts, pins, and nuts in place.

Y Fig. 4 is a detail view showing how the fender may be set at different angles by means of the set-serews in its connecting-clip.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the beam of a plow upon which the clip B rides. The said clip has the two descending legs I) b, from the right one, b, of which the arm Zi" depends, the said arm curving downward and slightly to the rear, as shown.

0 is a bolt passing through openings in the legs b 1) below the plow-beam and engaging a nut, c, which bears against the leg I), and D D are set-screws which pass into threaded openings in the top connecting-piece of the clip and impinge upon the upper surface of the plow-beam. By means of said bolt 0 and screws D the clip can be secured at any desired point upon the plow-beam, the bolt binding the legs to the sides of the plow-beam and the set-screws binding the clip vertically.

E is the fender-plate, having riveted or bolted to its surface the front portions of the fender-fingers e, which are slightly concave longitudinally, their concavities being toward the plow. The plate E is of sheet metal and about one-fourth of an inch thick. The fingers are of plate-steel and have about an equal thickness. The said fingers are rectangular and have the narrow rectangular spaces e be tween them, through which spaces the more finely-reduced soil escapes to the plants from the plow, the coarser parts or elods of the soil and such foreign substances as stones and sticks passing between the plow and fender and not being thrown on the plants.

If the fender were not provided with the spaces 6, the whole fender would be bent outward and would permit some of the elods, stones, &c., to pass below its edge upon the plants; but the fingers can be bent out separately, and only such as the said elods, 850., press against are bent outward from the plow; consequently the elods pass between the plow and fender and not on the rows of plants, the unhent fingers preventing the escape thereof.

F is the arm that connects the fender to the clip B. The said arm has its rear end secured to the fender-plate E by rivets or otherwise, and inclines thence upward to the end of the depending arm b of said clip, upon which it is pivoted at a suitable distance from its upper front end.

The fender is prevented from dropping below its proper position and dragging on the ground when the plow is raised by the edge of the portion of the arm Fbearing against the head of the bolt 0, and if it be desired to lift the fender entirely from the ground, so that all the soil can be thrown upon the plants by the plow, the front part of the arm F is depressed, and a pin, G, is inserted above the edge thereof into an opening, g, in the depending arm b By means of the set-screws D D, the fender can be set at different angles. Turning the rear set-screw farther in and the front setscrew farther out raises the rear end of the fender, and the reverse lowers said end.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination of the clip having the depending arm b the bolt 0, inserted transversely through the arms of the clip, the nut on said bolt, the pin removably secured in the arm 1) below said nut, the arm F, pivoted to the arm I), and having its front end adapted to contact with either the said pin or the nut, and the fender secured to the rear end of said arm F, as specified.

2. The combination of the fender composed of the plate E and steel arms 6, the upwardly and forwardly inclined arm F, the clip B, riding upon the plow-beam A, the set-screws D D, passing through threaded openings in the I In testimony that Iolaim theforegoing as my IO connecting top piece of said clip and bearing own Ihave hereto affixed mysignature in preson the upper surface of the plow-beam, and ence of two witnesses.

the bolt 0, passing through openings in the legs of the clips below the plow-beam engag- ROBERT LEE COLE.

ing the nut c, and with its head in proper position for the edge of the arm F to rest against 1 \Vitnesses:

to hold the fender in position, substantially as A. M. JONES,

specified. l MORGAN B. COLE. 

